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Date Posted: Tue, Aug 19 2008, 1:03pm
In reply to:
's message, "Heather Bruce Blogs on MAOT" on Tue, Aug 19 2008, 1:01pm
Talent was last.
ARK talent was great once again!
Sydney nailed her talent again as well.
Oklahoma, interestingly, was not as good in finals as she was in prelims. She was missing taps. It was weird to look around and see the audience whisper and talk throughout her routine, it was obvious to many that there was something not quite right. So, I was thinking she may not be as competitive as once thought (after talent), but you just never know?!
SC's talent is very entertaining. She has adequate difficulty, but her strong suit is her entertainment value.
And I LOVED her costume! In fact, ironically, she was the only one I took a photo of during prelims b/c I wanted a picture of her costume! I liked it THAT much! Being a dancer, I'm always on the lookout for great costume ideas! ;)
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Intermission happened after Talent.
During intermission, I felt that Sydney should be in the 5. I just felt she was the consistent one. She was good in every category. I questioned whether OK would make the 5 after what happened in her talent.
I felt SC and ARK would definitely be up there in the 5. The others I wasn't sure about.
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Top 5 announcement took forever it seemed! But, finally it happened and much to our surprise, Syd didn't make the cut. Not sure what happened but after they announced 3 and both TX and OK were still standing in the background, I was worried. After they announced the 4th and they were both STILL standing, I knew something was wrong, but was still hopeful that Syd would get that last spot which would be awesome placement. When they announced the final name and it still wasn't Syd, I my heart sank. I was really surprised. I wasn't convinved Syd would win b/c there was so many great girls, but I did feel she should be top 5. But, God obviously had other plans.
Sydney was fine after that. She didn't appear mad or sad or anything... still had her radiant smile and congratulated all the other girls.
After the 5 were announced I felt it would be between ARK and SC.
They 'chatted' with the top 5 girls and ARK was given a tremendous opportunity to show personality (was asked about a boyfriend and when she said she didn't have one, the emcee handed her a photo of his son, which she totally fed off of and it was really cute) I felt she may have secured the title after that.
But, SC still held her own too!
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Before they gave runners up. They brought all the contestants out and gave some other awards. It's not as extenstive as our Teen Texas awards night, but it was nice to see other girls recognized.
SC received the award for the highest GPA-- soooo, that told me se was a sharp cookie.
Many of the top 5 won academic awards, so it answered alot of questions about how some of them snuck up in the top 10 & 5.
Troy University gives like a $40K scholarship to 5 girls with high GPAs and ACT/SAT scores... so that was cool.. 5 girls got a huge scholarship if they want to go to Troy.
Another special award they gave was the BDON MAGNESS award! The chairman of the board for MAOT came out on stage and talked about how the teen program came to exist and that one man that helped with the vision of this system was BDon. They put a big photo of him up in the background on the screen. Jean came out to present the award. The award was a "Spirit" award, given for the contestant that showed the spirit of what the organization was all about... voted on by the contestants. PA won this award!
Her acceptance of the award was completetly heart warming... I gained a lot of respect for her just by how she accepted the award. She was truly gracious and humbled. It was neat to witness!
Then, the big announcement came...
after ARK was announced, I felt SC was going to get it... however, there was just something about PA that I wouldn't have been surprised if she had won. I felt SC was a stronger competitor, but PA just had this glow about her and obviously she was 'liked' or she wouldn't have gotten the spirit award.
But, in the end SC took the title and she was truly truly happy!
The girls all seemed happy for her too!
She'll make a great MAOT!
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the breakfast followed and we were able to see Sydney again and spend time with her. she was in great spirits! She told me that she really wanted to be in top 5, that was her goal, but she was ok about how it turned out... a bit disappointed, but totally o.k.
She took lots of photos with the other girls and just had a relaxed time with friends, family and princesses! :)
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This week was full of lots of emotions!
Great fun!
Just goes to show you... prelims are one thing, but then finals are a completely new ballgame!
Talent counts the most, but 2 of the 3 talent winners, didn't make top 5.
Only 1 of the 2 dbl prelim winners made top 5.
Syd and PA were in the same group--- Syd obviously scored higher than PA in EG/OSQ and Talent, and yet Syd didn't make the top 5 and PA was 1st runner up!! You just NEVER know?!?
But, we truly appreciate all of the support Texas gave Sydney. I told her about all the well wishes everyone back home were sending her. I let her read some of the texts I received and I told her about the rest!
She was very award she had 100s of supporters back home, so she knew she was making everyone proud and I'm sure that gave her unbelievable confidence!
We are so thrilled with the success Sydney had in Orlando and we are super excited to be able to keep her in Texas to represent us for this next year!
Thanks again!
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